Dragons have long been told about in ancient tales and stories as brutal beasts. But the stories were never told from a dragons view.
Blueberry is a wild young dragon who becomes captured by a group of humans and taken to the worst place imaginab...
"There's no way...No way..." I chanted to myself. I was in complete and utter shock. I couldn't accept it. My pulse kept getting higher and higher as I pushed myself into a corner of the cage. I kept pushing, pushing my back against the bars hoping and begging someone would intervene. I couldn't say anything, I didn't speak their language. All I wanted was for someone to come and help me. My mouth remained shut as my inner voice was screaming to let me out. But there was no way out. My teeth were clenched and my eyes were shut. I gulped, and as I did so a lump formed in my throat. Don't cry, don't cry, be brave, be brave... My eyes went wet and tears began to fall down my cheeks. Is this where my life ends? I don't want to die as a slave of humans! My thoughts were overwhelming. To think straight was impossible. We moved closer and closer to the big gate of the arena and I kept pushing against the cage so that the fur on my spine poked out between the bars. The gate opened with a loud thud and shimmering chains, and we entered it. Painful roars teared up the inside of my right ear, forcing me down on the cage's bottom with my hands over my ears. When I opened my eyes, I saw that we had entered a dark hallway. On each side were countless stone rooms and cages with dragons in them. One would imagine them being aggressive and attempting to destroy these cages, but they were not. There was instead a grave sense of misery and hopelessness, every dream and aspiration gone since long. Some dragons walked manically in circles, but most laid in a corner of their respective cage and moved very little. Scars in varying severity covered them, and many seemed sick and malnourished. We stopped so that the wagon was aligned with a stone room. My heart was still racing. I'd curled my body into a ball and my mind had shut down. From here on I was set on autopilot. The humans stepped off the wagon and unlocked a metallic door to a stone room. When the entrance of the wagon's cage and the metallic door aligned, they carefully slid the cage door to the side. More humans came to assist them, but they didn't need to. I did nothing. There was nothing I could do. The opening aligned perfectly and I walked in. They shut the door, and I was left between four stone walls. I'm going to die here, was the first thought that hit me. But my train of thought was cut short. Chattering, groaning, mumbling voices could be heard from both the left and right wall. This time it was other dragons I heard and not humans. By listening I figured something out. My room must be placed beside many, many others. Sharpening my ears, I could hear hundreds of different sounds. I am just one out of a hundred dragons, aren't I? I let anger reach me, and with it, fear. I didn't know what to do. How to react anymore. So I laid down on the stone ground, which had a pile of hay on it, and shut my eyes.
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Ignore. Forget. Escape. Because this can't be reality, can it? No. Let it be just another nightmare. Stars, I beg you. Let it be a dream. - Step. Step. Step... They echoed in the far distance. I would soon notice that my room had two openings. One was the metallic door which led out to the dark corridor I had entered through. The other one was a rounded, thick wooden gate placed on the opposite wall. Whilst the metal one opened like any other door, this one had to be rolled open so that it became elevated from the ground like a true gate. This mechanic would soon be demonstrated for me, as I heard more and more human activity around me. The gate slowly rolled open and unfolded a blinding wave of sunlight. I woke up properly, analysing my surroundings. To my relief there were no humans here. But as I squinted my eyes to see what laid beyond the gate, my heart skipped a beat. All I saw in front of me was the sand of the arena. —- Hi! I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the book! If it isn't too much to ask I'd love to know the age of my readers and what you think of the story thus far :) Love you all for sticking around <3
